Evan Esar Quotes

It was a remarkably reasonable compromise. It pleased nobody, but everybody signed on.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

One problem can stop a whole agreement.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

My people were divided about surrendering.

I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now.

It's difficult when you want it all.

There comes a point, in any kind of, whether it's in your family discussions or business or whatever, where you finally have to get over the making of the points and now let's see if we can find common ground.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Compromise in colors is grey.

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Once in a while I can agree with the enemy.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

When men understand what each other mean, they see for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless.

Compromises make all of us swallow hard.

If we can’t agree on the facts, how can we agree on the solutions?